Butcher Vocabulary – AIRC189

We’re speaking about meat today. Everything from pork chops and meatballs to salami and chorizo! Join us to learn all about butcher’s vocabulary on this episode of Aprender Inglés con Reza y Craig.

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Hi Reza,
My name is Manuel and recently I started to listen to your podcast, it helps me a lot (vocabulary, pronunciation, but specially (especially!) phrasal verbs) having said that the first question arises, what’s the difference between ‘specially’ and ‘especially’.
The second question, of which I couldn’t find a suitable answer, it trouble(d) my mind when I was doing a multi-choice cloze:

The room to …….. looked out over the back garden.
I picked RENT. however the answer says that it should be LET.

Thank you for your time. Looking forward to hearing your explanation.

‘Specially’ and ‘especially’ are entirely different in meaning and not interchangeable.
Specially = with special effort. eg. I baked this cake specially with the finest ingredients.
Especially = in particular/particularly. Eg. I love all meat, especially bacon.

I don’t want to be treated specially. = I don’t want special treatment – I want normal treatment.XI don’t want to be treated especially.X
I don’t want to be treated,(COMMA) especially. (informal) = I don’t especially want to be treated. = I don’t particularly want to be treated. = I’m not very interested in/keen on being treated.

Let and rent basically mean the same thing, but the landlord (dueño, propietario) LETS a flat to a tenant and the tenant RENTS the property from the landlord.
Also ‘to hire’ – pay to use something on a temporary basis and to employ someone.

Bibi from La Coruña asked us to talk about supermarket (episode 185) and butcher vocabulary because she’s working in a supermarket.
She says, ‘I work as a butcher (charcutera) but it’s the same name for both jobs (carnicera y charcutera), isn’t it?’Charcutera/o could be translated as a ‘pork butcher’, but they also might sell non-pork products, such cured beef (cecina) or cheese.
In English-speaking countries the closest equivalent of ‘charcutería’ is a ‘cold meats counter’ in a supermarket or maybe ‘delicatessen / deli counter’, though that isn’t exactly the same.
So a ‘charcutero/a’ like Bibi, would probably be called a ‘cold meats counter assistant’!

(note: we will be speaking about vegetarianism and veganism in a future episode)

Idioms
One man’s meat is another man’s poison – what one person likes, maybe another doesn’t.
The meat and potatoes – basic, fundamental
Mutton dressed as lamb – an older person dressing in younger clothes to look younger (derogatory)
Dead meat – used as a threat of future trouble. Eg. “If you don’t do what dad says, you’re dead meat!” Pete said to his brother.
Meat market – a bar, club, etc. where people often go “on the pull” (para ligar)
Craig’s meat joke (at stake=at risk – gambling idiom – you could lose a large amount of money)

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Comments

Wow!! This especially/specially subject is rather confusing, to say the least…
I never paid attention to that difference, but I had a look at chapter 194 in “Practical English Usage” (oxford…michael swan), and I got even more confused…
Thank you for publishing the link to my friend’s book “Paralian”. I sent him the link to your podcast.
My wife is getting AIRCoholic too… 😉